NEW DELHI, June 10 (Reuters) - Pre-monsoon
showers have at last brought down temperatures in a region of India where
more than 1,400 people have died in a severe heat wave, meteorologists
said on Tuesday.

A pre-monsoon breeze blew in Hyderabad,
capital of the worst-hit state of Andhra Pradesh, on Tuesday morning after
the three-week heat wave in which temperatures rose as high as 49 degrees
Celsius (120.20 Fahrenheit).

They have since dropped by four to eight
degrees Celsius and in Hyderabad dipped to 39C (102.2F) after 0.4 mm of
rain fell on Monday.

NEW DELHI, 6 June 2003 - Severe
heat wave conditions in several coastal south districts of Andhra Pradesh
and adjoining coastal districts of north Tamil Nadu since 20 May and interior
parts of Orissa since 27 May are imperiling the lives of people in the
region. Heat wave conditions have also developed in parts of Vidarbha region
of Maharashtra, eastern Uttar Pradesh, Rajsthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar,
Jharkhand and Chattisgarh.